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	Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens - LoveToKnow 1911
		For one who was to occupy such a commanding figure in the whole world of modern English architecture, Sir Edwin Lutyens' art owes singularly little to a training and education of the usual description.
		His two churches in the centre of the square, planned for use by supporters of differing schools of religious thought, are neither of them on the conventional lines of ecclesiastical design, but show in each case a characteristic simplicity and culture.
		Sir Edwin was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1913 and a full Academician in 1920.
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	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Edwin Lutyens
		Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was perhaps the most influential architect - and certainly the most eminent - in determining the manner in which the Great War would be physically commemorated.
		Born in London on 29 March 1869 the eleventh child of a soldier-turned-painter, Lutyens suffered severe illness during childhood - said to be rheumatic fever - which left him in too delicate a condition to be sent to school; he was consequently educated after a fashion by one of his brothers.
		Lutyens' talent was publicly recognised with his election as Associate of the Royal Academy in 1913.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/lutyens.htm (0 words)

	Sir Edwin Lutyens
		Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) is often described as the greatest British architect of his age and possibly of all time.
		Although influenced early on by the Arts and Crafts movement of his youth, and later by the discipline of the classical ideal, his eclecticism was such that he was more concerned with the intricacies of his own aesthetic principles.
		Lutyens produced over 300 buildings, the majority of which were large country houses.
	www.hbe.co.uk /HBEFP2001/sir_edwin_lutyens.htm (201 words)

	Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens - LoveToKnow 1911
		For one who was to occupy such a commanding figure in the whole world of modern English architecture, Sir Edwin Lutyens' art owes singularly little to a training and education of the usual description.
		His two churches in the centre of the square, planned for use by supporters of differing schools of religious thought, are neither of them on the conventional lines of ecclesiastical design, but show in each case a characteristic simplicity and culture.
		Sir Edwin was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1913 and a full Academician in 1920.
	1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Edwin_Landseer_Lutyens (732 words)

	Byzantium in Berkshire: fresh information on Sir Edwin Lutyens's first mausoleum, the Hannen columbarium at St Mary, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In fact, 1905 was the year in which Lutyens first fully embraced classicism, in his Sanmicheli-inspired house Heathcote in Ilkley, Yorkshire, of 1905-1907.
		Lutyens often employed classicism internally in buildings that are not classical externally: the columbarium's semicircular sub-Tuscan colonnade of six columns (Fig.
		Bowdler notes on p 117, 'No reference is made to the mausoleum in A.S.G Butler's monumental 3-volume The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens of 1950 The secondary literature on the building is very slight.' The same is true of the Hannen columbarium.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-131607266.html (3073 words)

	New Statesman - At the feet of genius. Edwin Lutyens may have been dumpy, of lowly birth and hopeless in bed, but his ...
		Edwin Lutyens may have been dumpy, of lowly birth and hopeless in bed, but his wife revered him.
		Edwin (Ned) Lutyens was born in 1869, the eleventh of 14 children.
		But it was her dream to be married to a genius, and almost as soon as she met Lutyens in 1896, she knew he was her man. "Do you dance till you are dishevelled?" he asked.
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	Edwin Lutyens - Great Buildings Online
		Edwin Lutyens was born in London in 1869.
		Lutyens designed his early houses in the informal manner of the "English Free School".
		Lutyens was knighted in 1918, received the Gold Medal of the RIBA in 1921 and was made President of the Royal Academy in 1938.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Edwin_Lutyens.html (251 words)

	Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944), English architect, born in London and educated at the Royal College of Art and with the architectural...
		In 1867, statues of four lions, 6 m (20 ft) long and 3.4 m (11 ft) high, were cast in bronze from an original design by Sir Edwin Landseer and placed...
		Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873), English painter, sculptor, and engraver, born in London.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Lutyens_Sir_Edwin_Landseer.html (150 words)

	Edwin Landseer Lutyens Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of England's most prominent and inventive architects working in a traditional manner during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Edwin Landseer Lutyens was born on March 29, 1869, in London, England, the 11th of 14 children of an army captain who retired from service to study art with the English animal painter Edwin Landseer, after whom the young Lutyens was named.
		Lutyens' Neo-Georgian work, which he jokingly referred to as his "Wrenniassance Style" (after the great English baroque architect Christopher Wren) is typified by the use of English baroque forms and details.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edwin-landseer-lutyens (1301 words)

	Edwin Lutyens
		Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM (March 29, 1869 - January 1, 1944), a British architect, designed many English country houses.
		He also designed a Great War memorial gardens in Dublin, which was restored to its full splendour in the 1990s.
		Whilst work continued in New Delhi, Lutyens continued to receive other commissions including several commercial buildings in London and the British Embassy in Washington, DC.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ed/Edwin_Lutyens.html (355 words)

	Lutyens Furniture Limited
		Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) is often described as the greatest British architect of his age.
		Although influenced early on by the Arts and Crafts movement of his youth, and later by the discipline of the classical ideal, his eclecticism was such that he was more concerned with the intricacies of his own aesthetic principles.
		As with his architecture, Lutyens in his furniture designs makes specific reference to, and is influenced by, the substance and course of the great English tradition of furniture making.
	www.lutyens-furniture.com /sir_e_lutyens.html (0 words)

	Lutyens Furniture Limited
		Lutyens Furniture Limited was formed approximately eighteen years ago with the specific aim of promoting the work of my grandfather, Sir Edwin Lutyens.
		At that time it was not generally known that he was not just an extraordinary architect, but also that he was a designer of furniture.
		It is my hope that Lutyens Furniture Limited will have broader aims but one constant will remain - the furniture and designs we produce will always be of the best quality, not just in construction but in conception and attention to detail as well.
	www.lutyens-furniture.com /LFL.html (0 words)

	Edwin Lutyens information - Search.com
		Largely designed by Lutyens over twenty or so years, New Delhi was chosen to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government in 1912; the project was completed in 1929 and officially inaugurated in 1931.
		Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lutyens married Lady Emily Lytton, daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (the 1st Earl of Lytton), a former Viceroy of India, on 4 August, 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
		The Lutyens' marriage quickly deterioriated, with Lady Emily turning her interest to theosophy and Eastern religions and a fascination -- emotional and philosophical -- with the guru Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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	Edwin Lutyens, House, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Architect, Scotland
		Edwin Lutyens extended the original Ferry Inn that dated from around 1800.
		Edwin was only 27 when he started the project.
		Lutyens only designed two houses in scotland: the other is Grey Walls, which now forms a hotel, in Gullane.
	www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk /edwin_lutyens_house.htm (193 words)

	Edwin Lutyens Summary
		Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was arguably the greatest British architect of the earlier 20th century.
		The Lutyens' marriage quickly deterioriated, with Lady Emily turning her interest to theosophy and Eastern religions and a fascination — emotional and philosophical — with the guru Jiddu Krishnamurti.
		The couple's daughter Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) became a well-known composer; another daughter, Mary Lutyens, became a writer known for her books about Krishnamurti.
	www.bookrags.com /Edwin_Lutyens (2534 words)

	Edwin Lutyens (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lutyens was an architect known more for his versatility and eccentricity than for his grand designs.
		In 1910, Lutyens received a commission for the planning of the new Indian capital at Delhi.
		Lutyens’ greatest war memorial was the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval near Aaras, France, which consists of a classical triumphal arch, in interlocking parts, with vast open spaces, symbolising the loss of millions in a conflict which gained nothing.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /29march.htm (536 words)

	cDecor.com - Architectural Illuminations
		The heirs of 20th-century architect Sir Edwin Lutyens have begun producing his architectural lighting designs, including sconces, lanterns and drop lights, in partnership with Dernier & Hamlyn.
		Lutyens is considered to be one of Britain’s last traditionalist architects, and Dernier & Hamlyn, which possesses a royal warrant from the Queen of England, has been making lighting since 1888.
		Lutyens engineered more than 300 buildings in England, many of them country houses, but he also worked in New Delhi.
	www.cdecor.com /magazine/lutyens.asp (213 words)

	The Lutyens Trust - The Trust
		The Lutyens Trust is an educational charity which acts as a source of information and help on the care and maintenance of the works of Sir Edwin Lutyens OM, KCIE, PRA, who died on New Years Day 1944.
		Edwin Lutyens started work as an architect in his twentieth year, 1889, and as he worked persistently, with very little time for other interests, his output is enormous.
		The initial plan of the Trustees was to make Goddards a center for Lutyens studies and promote appreciation of the architect's work through opening Goddards to the public and running it with a resident administrator.
	www.lutyenstrust.org.uk /introduction.htm (0 words)

	Edwin Lutyens at Knebworth House.
		dwin Lutyens was born in London in 1869.
		At the beginning of his career, Lutyens also married Emily, sister of Victor, 2nd Earl of Lytton.
		Although Lutyens had no background in classical Baroque architecture, the building showed an immediate mastery of the classical language of architecture.
	www.knebworthhouse.com /people/lutyens.html (0 words)

	AbeBooks: Search Results - Butler and Edwin Lutyens
		This is a reprint of the thiCountry -Houses volume from the three volume Lutyens Memorial set "The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens" published by Country Life in 1950.
		The Lutyens Memorial: The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Volume 3: Town and Public Buildings: Memorials: The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool.
		This first volume of the 3-volume memorial to Edwin Lutyens, originally published in 1950, is now reprinted for the second time.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/an/Butler+/tn/+Edwin+Lutyens (0 words)

	[ r i b a m s s - n e w s ]
		Our substantial collection of Sir Edwin Lutyens' correspondence has recently been added to with a particularly interesting letter by Sir Edwin Lutyens to Lady Sackville, dated 22 November 1924.
		According to Christopher Hussey’s biography of Lutyens, none of the correspondence between Lutyens and Lady Sackville had survived, which makes this letter extremely unique.
		Its content is largely architectural, including a series of sketches showing basic stages in the design of a house and a sketch of Lutyens’ Memorial to the Missing at Arras, France for the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Edwin Lutyens: His Life, His Wife, His Work: Books: Jane Ridley (Site not responding. Last check: )
		'The stature of Edwin Lutyens as an artist is beyond dispute; what remains tantalising is the psychology of that extraordinary man. Jane Ridley analyses his character and investigates his misdemeanours and the tragedy of his marriage with unsentimental acuity to create a compelling new biography of Britain's greatest architect.' Gavin Stamp
		The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls' house and Hampstead Garden Suburb.
		Not only is it packed with information about the work of Sir Edwin and taken from surviving documents and letters, it also brings both himself and his wife to life as I feel no other book has.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Edwin-Lutyens-Life-Wife-Work/dp/0712668225 (670 words)

	Amazon.fr : Edwin Lutyens: Livres en anglais: Gavin Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in 1869, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens opened his own office in London when he was only 20 years old and began his career with a series of opulent country houses.
		Gavin Stamp, an expert on the architecture of Lutyens, presents 22 houses illustrated with exquisite duotone photographs culled from the archives of the great British magazine Country Life.
		Most of the photographs date from before World War I and show the houses as their architect intended they should look and performing as they were designed to perform, before the kitchens were modernized, the gardens simplified, and the interiors compromised to accord with modern tastes.
	www.amazon.fr /Edwin-Lutyens-Gavin-Stamp/dp/1854107631 (308 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		Masterpieces of Arts and Crafts architecture, they employ local building materials in designs which derive from traditional vernacular building types, characteristically picturesque and asymmetrical.
		In the building of Heathcote in Yorkshire (1906) can be seen a new development: a symmetrical composition in which are employed the Classical orders.
		Lutyens also designed many war memorials, including the Cenotaph (1919-20) in Whitehall.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?entryid=99815&BID=1&searchwords=lutyens (264 words)

	Google Earth Community: Heathcote - designed by Edwin Lutyens
		This mansion situated in Ilkley, West Yorkshire was designed by Edwin Lutyens - the architect who designed India Gate.
		Built in 1906 for a local wealthy businessman, this house is said to have been a turning point in Lutyen's career.
		I don't think it could be built anywhere else.' This shows how fruitfully Lutyens was able to incorporate into the classical tradition the characteristically Arts and Crafts preoccupation with the use of local materials.
	bbs.keyhole.com /ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/314389 (217 words)

	Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Architect and President of the Royal Academy
		Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), Architect and President of the Royal Academy
		Shortly after establishing his practice he met Gertrude Jekyll who collaborated on the landscape portion of many of his subsequent commissions and through her social connections, helped Lutyens accumulate many more commissions.
		Best known for his romantic country houses and designs for New Delhi (1913-30), Lutyen's also designed a number of war memorials including the Cenotaph (1919).
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